Improved fuel-dumper



' -J. HAINES.

. Dumping-Wagon.

Patented Sept. 25, 1866.

Witnesses:

I M. PHOTO-LITHO. CD- N-Y. (OSBDRNES PRCBESS.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOEL HAINES, OF WEST MIDDLEBURG, OHIO.

IMPROVED FUEL-DUMPER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,248, dated September 25, 1866.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, J OEL HAINES, of West Middleburg, in the county of Logan and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Apparatus for Loading Fuel onto the Tender; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to make use of it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a perspective View. Fig. 2 is a detached view of a portion of the apparatus.

This apparatus is designed, in connection with a derrick, to lift fuel and empty it into the tender of the locomotive.

It consists of a box with avertical partition and swinging bottom boards, which are closed by latches or rods until the load is raised and swung to the proper position over the tender, when the rods are withdrawn, the load discharged, and, the box being lowered onto the truck, the sloping edges of the latter close together the swinging bottom boards, which are then secured, and the box is run back upon its track to be reloaded.

In the drawings, A is the-cord by which the box is suspended from the. crane or derrick. B are the ends of the box; 0, the sides; D, the partition; E, the swinging bottom boards, hinged to G, and secured in a closed position to the lower part of the partition D; the rods 0 extending through the opening at and being secured by the latch-rod G, which is with drawn by the handle g, when required.

The carriage is specially adapted to the purpose, its sides H having the form represented in order to receive the box. As it is lowered to the carriage, the doors E come in contact with the sloping side It, by which they are closed as the box settles into, its place, the lower edge of the partition D occupying the space K. The rods G are then pushed in, engaging with the rods o, and the box on its carriage is pushed back to the wood-pile for another load.

The derrick or crane, of any suitable form, is placed conveniently to the tender, so that the box being raised by winch and rope the derrick is rotated on its yertical axis to bring the box over the tender, when the bottom is opened and the fuel discharged.

Agreat saving in time is effected by this mode of loading fuel.

Havingdescribed my invention, whatI claim therein as new, and desire to-secure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination, withv the sloping-sided truck and the derrick,ofthe suspended fuel-box, having dischargeboards, closed by contact with the sides of the truck, and fastened and opened substantially as described.

To the above specification of an improved apparatus for loading fuel onto its tender I have signed my hand this 20th day of June, 1866.

JOEL HAINES.

Witnesses:

JAMEs L. EWIN, CHARLES A. PETTIT. 

